Evening_Team t1_iw5p7jd wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:51 AM

Reply to comment by RedmakesItgoFasta in Will mankind ever travel outside our solar system? by savol_

Capitalism is a greed-driven social system of resource consumption oriented toward building "wealth" (defined in terms of money) for individuals, so faster consumption produces correspondingly more privately owned wealth for cleverly managed enterprises, as opposed to conserving and/or improving resource sustenance that rewards everyone (including future persons) suitably.

RedmakesItgoFasta t1_iw5qe3t wrote on November 13, 2022 at 4:01 AM

If I may, I believe you might be referring to Late Stage Capitalism from its current state. Capitalism done right would have paved the way for self sustaining system of renewable resource use that would gear us as a spesies to the space faring age.... unfortunately certain aspects like education and social engineering these days in the current capitalistic system has degreased us as a spesies to where we are now and thus putting the ambiguity in whether we would even reach it a possibility...